Ayurveda says fasting twice in a month or once in a fortnight is beneficial for health

Ayurveda says fasting twice in a month or once in a fortnight is beneficial for health , relieving you of toxins and rejuvenating your body...as per the lunar calendar we have 28 days, of which first fourteen days are observed as rising moon and second fourteen days are observed as setting moon or vice versa based on cultural beliefs. and each of this fourteen days have chaturthi, ekadashi and so on and in all of 28 days you have one Purnima and one Amavasya resulting again at a difference of fourteen days. now the question arises why different days were communicated to different cultures and faith, simple reason - the gurus/rishis in those days did not carry mobile to communicate :)

what is meant from above statement is, there might have been few intellectual rishis and gurus who found the elixir of life and health, they discussed amongst themselves either via meeting in person or telepathy and came to a conclusion of spreading the knowledge across the nation, the only non-communication being which days to be followed, each one of them started observing on different days and explaining the benefits of it to folks some took chaturthi as example and some ekadashi and someone purnima/amavasya.

all explaining the same thing. when people did not fully understand they started creating mythological stories and benefits around it and we started following it.

today most of us still follow the culture without knowing the exact reason and few others shed it as bllnd faith. fasting is really good for health and when people say to pray during fasting means that our chakras are getting energized and during this process any thoughts that crosses our ming gets seeded deep and we start beliving and acting on it hence we get better result.

this article is based on my personal belief and not meant to hurt sentiments of any. please do provide your valuable thoughts about this article as well as any other thought for which we can start connecting dots and start changing the blind faiths with some scientific reasoning and be proud of our culture,